Annick Goutal
Sables
Oriental Spicy · 1985 · Annick Goutal
Longevity
Long
Sillage
Strong
Occasion
Romantic/Evening
Seasonality
Winter
Maple-like immortelle over vanilla and amber, warmed by spice into something syrupy and sun-baked. It projects strongly and smells of curry-leaf sweetness and dried herbs. A distinctive, honeyed amber that leans gourmand.
Taste Profile
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On Zenyra's five taste axes, Sables carries across a room and announces itself, and keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere.
Sables sits temperate, built on woods and soft musk rather than amber. That is 62nd percentile for warmth across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Sables carries across a room and announces itself. That is 93rd percentile for projection across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Sables sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available.
Sables sits mid-range on texture, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle.
Sables keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere. That is 29th percentile for sweetness across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Projection, risk and texture describe how a fragrance behaves in a room and on skin. Where wear reports are thin, those scores rest near the middle by design, so a mid-range reading here is a statement about the evidence as much as about the scent. Warmth and sweetness are derived from composition and do not carry that caveat.
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